Will Offer 3DViewStation with Multi-CAD Digital Mockup Capabilities for the Aras PLM Platform

ANDOVER, Mass. and Munich, Germany – April 3, 2014 – Aras®, the next leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, today announced a partnership with Kisters AG to integrate the high performance 3D digital mockup product 3DViewStation to the Aras PLM platform for multi-CAD digital mockup. Users will have industry leading speed, power and accuracy for performing sophisticated analysis and viewing of aircraft, automobiles, equipment and other complex systems directly from the Aras Innovator® suite.

"The need for high performance digital mockup with inputs from multiple different CAD applications has become critical for next generation systems engineering,” said John Sperling, Vice President of Product Management at Aras. “We chose to work with Kisters because of their advanced 3D DMU technology for analysis, industry leading DMU performance and their global reputation for quality.”

About Kisters 3DViewStation

3DViewStation is a powerful 3D CAD digital mockup solution and viewer application for engineers and designers that is designed to work with a wide range of 3D CAD data types including 3D PDF, PRC, JT and native CAD formats for 3D analysis, viewing, technical documentation and publishing. For more information please visit
http://viewer.kisters.de/en/kisters-products/3dviewstation-desktop.html

About Aras

We offer the best Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for global businesses with complex products and processes. Advanced PLM platform technology makes Aras more scalable, flexible and secure for the world’s largest organizations, and a full set of applications provide complete functionality for companies of all sizes. Customers include GE, GETRAG, Hitachi, Honda, Motorola, TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Textron and XEROX. Aras is privately held with global headquarters in Andover, Mass. More at
www.aras.com and Twitter @aras_plm